Biographical Data :

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in 1889 and declared him to be Mahdi in 1891.

He made the spurious claims in a series of assertions: that he was the Promised Messiah of the Christian and Muslim traditions; he was a prophet, suggesting that prophesy had not come to an end with the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

Ghulam Ahmad’s claim considered by his followers to be a Prophet fundamentally differed from the mainstream of Islam – hence seen as heretic by the main majority and by others something of curiosity.